, 1887-09-15
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From SATURDAYS Daily.
The base ball game yesterday between
Starrett's club and the Boys club re-
suited in victory for the latter; score
% to a.
A court martial will be held on Mon
day next at Fort Vancouver. w. T. Sew,
eral of our citizens have been sub
po9naed as witnesses in cases connected
with certain soldiers of Fort Townsend,
who are under arrest at Vancouver.
N. 7, ]. Fortman, county surveyor,
is now engaged in laying out "Swan
Park" in blocks OF two acres each with
streets 60 feet wide around each block.
One half of the blocks in the Park are
already sold. Our citizens will be satis-
fed before long that something besides
University is attracting Californians to
make purchases on this peHinsuia.
A letter from the Chief Signal officer
at Washington to Port townsend citi-
zen states that an especial effort Will be
made to man the military line between
Port Angeles and Tatoosh Island so as
to keep 1t in good working oader during
the coming winter, by repairmen at Cres-
cent bay, Pyscht, Hoko and Neah bay.
Also, a wind signal display station will
be ordered established at Tatoosh Island
without delay.
The water in front of the custom house
is full of great RATS of piles; and Mr..
Trenholm, with his great pile driver is
setting them up on end with a gentle
tap of his five ton hammer in an exten-
sion EloDg the Eisenbeis property into
the bay. Tibbals, at the same time. has
another pile driver on Union wharf. in
charge of Mr.. Toby, and he and Tren-
holm are seeing who can drive piles fast
eat. The clank of hammers driving
piles into the mud, joined with the cheer
full ringing of the anvils in the shop of
Bill and Weymouth. with an occasional
snort from a company of government
mules being shod in the smithy. make
things pretty lively along Water street.
There is no mistake in the anuouDce-
ment that Port Townsend is taking a
mighty start in the advance
Parties just arrived in town from Cal
ifornia are eager to purchase water lots
and other property at the west side of
the bay. 1t is well known and publicly
talked Of in San Francisco at the Mer-
chants Exchange, and other public
places, that Port Townsend is the COM
ing place, that the bays of Port Town
send and Fort Discovery will be the
great wheat Shipping points, and that
the Union and Southern Pacific Roads
are coming to this peninsula. This rail
road question does not depend on the
University, as some honest persons be-
lieve. II the University is located here
it will be well, but the railroads are COM
ing at all events, and we predict that If
the Methodist conference decide to re-
fuse our offer that they will want to hide
their heads in bag before q year
elapses, out of pure chagrin that they
have lost fortune by their folly. This
very day $500 an acre for water front
lands have been offered and refused for
land that six months ago was drag at
$40. Good.
Some years ago an artesian we'll was
sunk in water street at the junction OF
Adams street TO depth of 1853 feet where
a stream of pure water was struck when
flowed to the surface. The pipes used
was. from motives of economy, simply
sheet iron, riveted like stove pipe, in-
stead of cast iron tubes. Or course such
a fraiI structure crushed III and the well
was useless. But the fact was estab-
hshed that at depth of from one to two
hundred feet on this spit, pure fresh
water in inexhaustable quantities can be
had aud this s.indicates a source OF sup
ply far better and cheaper than to bring
water from the lakes or mountains. Mr.
TFayers Daniel who constructed the tlne
water works at Montgomery, Alabama,
aud who was here few weeks since, in
formed us that the Montgomery supply
is from artesiGn wells and he was of the
opinion that wells sunk anywhere along
the foot Of the bluff to the required
depth which should be lower than the
water OF the bay, would yield all the
water required for the city's use which
could be pumped from the we'll mouth
by stationary steam engine to reser-
yoirs on the bluff. 1t is well known that
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the primitive sheet iron bore and there
is every reason to believe that II proper
cast iron pipes are used that plenty of
water can be found of the very parest
and best quality.